Weekly Roundup

There has been an unusual increase in aircraft disasters in the last week, which is enough to make anyone avoid flying anywhere soon. Firstly Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was reportedly shot down over Eastern Ukraine, along with some Ukrainian fighter jets. Secondly a TransAsia flight crash-landed during monsoon weather in a residential area of Taiwan. Yesterday, in what is hopefully the last incident for a while, an Air Algeria flight went down in Mali, added to the huge death toll this week. Here’s hoping there’s a much safer mode of transport being developed.

2. The Queen is the coolest person on the internet this week.

Out of all the people in the world, it’s the Queen of England that did the best thing on the web this week. While checking out a Commonwealth Games hockey match between Australia and Malaysia, the Queen decided to slip into the background of a selfie taken by some players to perform the best photobomb in the history of everything. What a world we live in.

3. The Kyalami racetrack was auctioned off for a lot of money to a surprise buyer.

Kyalami and it’s surrounding grounds went on sale this week at an auction, and collected a hefty R205 million price tag. The winning bid, via telephone, came from none other than Porsche and it will be interesting to see whether they can restore it to it’s former glory.

4. Don’t worry about remembering any of your passwords.

Research from the University of Oxford suggests that one day our physical behaviours could be used to log us into our computers and smartphones, negating the need for passwords. Unique gestures such as the way you type, hold your phone or move your mouse can be detected, and bypass that process of trying to remember why you chose such a ridiculous password.